So I have an empty spam can (and the wooden crate it came in) from my 7.62x54r and was wondering if anybody here ever used them for anything?





I have a friend who used his for a parts bucket in the garage (throw in old bolts and pieces that he doesn't want to categorize). Any other ideas? This can is in really good shape...

If the wooden box is open on both ends, you can use it for a makeshift porta potty. Just about the right height for sitting on...dig a little hole underneath and be careful of splinters. I think the can would make a good solvent tank for small parts, if it doesn't leak.

Use em for targets?


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Can't remember the site but a guy made a great camp table out of a x54R crate. The legs packed inside the crate & looked pretty easy to set up. Perfect for putting between a couple of folding chairs. Looked very Soviet!

Disposable turkey roaster for the holidays!

You could...um...store ammo in them.


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In my younger days, I called it furniture.

Fill 'em with dirt and use them to fortify your defensive bunker.

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Heck, I still do.
A pic I just took of my rec room TV w/manfurniture, 1.5 rocket crates that hold my CDs and DVDs.:

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Some good ideas here so far. The camp table and beer cooler are my favorite so far.

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Thanks ditrina, here's what the insides look like with a little help from cheap pieces scrounged up:



And now, back to the Doctor Who marathon!

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Dang, that looks pretty awesome. The wood on this is not really something I'd want to do a public display on like that, sadly.

Nail the lid back on the box. Cut about a 2" dia hole on one side.
Put the box up in a tree and you'll have a Comm Bloc style marked squirrel house.
Kinda camo'd too w/the green paint job.

Partitian it off into 4 simple sections inside before closing up the roof,,make 4 entrances and have a Soviet Squirrel Public Housing Project.

All makes for happy neighbors,,and squirrels.

First one I emptied I flattened the sharp edges on the spam can and use it to soak small parts. The wooden crate I put a light oil finish on it, hinged one side of the lid and put a brass window latch on the other. Makes a good gun cleaning supplies box and the parts soaker tray fits in like it was made for it. The second wooden crate I decided to fill with bricks of 22LR. Fortunately this was done at pre-panic prices. Third wooden crate is still unopened and is in my Just In Case stash. Fourth wooden crate is only half empty so I still have time to plan but the camp table sounds promising.

I was going to use the wood crates as draws. I was going to make a simple wood unit with shelves sized so the crate would just slip into it. The green cans could be dividers inside the draw.


I thought it would be nice next to the safe and a good spot to store mags and holsters etc.

I dont know what to do with the galvanized tin cans?

The one I opened I chopped a hole in the bottom so the can still appears sealed...


I said I was going to do it, I still might but my project list is almost as long as Santa's list at this point.

NO, NO, NO !
use it to store and bury your Gold Bricks and Coins in.

Ive only four wood ammo crates.

1) Is used to store my STG 44/22 rifle it came with.
2) Is used to store my 2 & 1/2 ton car jack in--fits perfectly too.
3) To store my small militaria collectables in.
4) Completely filled with 22 and 9mm ammo.

Why disposable-looks dishwasher safe to me.
Fill it half way with kerosene and use it as a wash for tools, hands etc.
My grandfather had in his shop a pail with about 2 inches of kerosene in it that he used as a pre wash to get most of the crud off his hands before the soap and water. He just kept topping it off as it evaporated or got used-had a couple of rags next to it to dry the hands. Today we have all kind of hand cleaners but back then you made do.....
Funny how something like this thread would jog a nice memory of my grandfather and his shop.

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Well guys I think this is going to be storage container for cleaning supplies (the crate) and a parts bin in the garage (the can). Will have to ponder to do with the next one when I get it.

Sorry to revisit a super old thread...

I have been trying to figure out how I can open one of those an put hinges on it and re-use it for storing cleaning supplies or something. I want to preserve the cans lid by either cutting below the lid, or opening the end up and hinging it so it either looks unopened or so I can at least keep it looking like I didn't cut the top off with a can opener lol - mainly because I can't afford to buy these all the time, and not too many shops around me even carry them anymore. I think Obama screwed up the import of foreign ammo when he was in office. I was hoping President Trump would have reversed that by now

I have Appalachian roots. Frugal people, so the possibilities are endless-


Bed Pan
Slop Jar ("chamber pot" to flatlanders)
Flower Planter
Dog Dish for all 4 hounds
Feeder for the shoats
Really big bread pan (don't use the same one as a bed pan)
Cut it up so you have flat sheets for tin roof patchin
Gang plank mousetrap
Wash basin (not tha same one used as a slop jar)

Milkin Stool for the kids
Porch decoration
Nail it to the wall by the door, install kerosene lamp, an ya have a porch light. Put one on either side of tha door, an you're really uptown.



Don't thow it out- I'll think o' more stuff!

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I'd open the can with one of those "side cutting" can openers. The kind with a horizontal blade wheel that cuts through the vertical wall of the seal - instead of a vertical cutter wheel that cuts through the flat top of the lid. When the lid is removed using one of those openers, it is completely reusable and has no sharp edges. Works great.

Man, you've been working five years on that, haven't you?

Here in Pueblo, Colorado we have the Pueblo Depot Activity (formerly Pueblo Army Depot), thousands of acres of bunkers containing all sorts of military equipment and supplies dating back decades.

A few years ago they found stockpiles of raw rubber, stockpiled for wartime needs, and sold it off (probably caused a minor hiccup in world rubber markets).

Used to have much of the collection of Nazi art, looted from European museums and family homes during WW2, and also including a lot of old Adolph's personal paintings. I understand that most of the looted art has been repatriated.

Currently they are disposing of mustard gas artillery shells, a process that has taken decades beyond all international agreements and has cost billions upon billions of dollars.

Throughout Pueblo there are what is known as "ammo box houses", made almost entirely of scrap lumber from the shipping boxes containing rockets and artillery shells. Contractors have learned to recognize these because any attempts to work on the house can be complicated by the non-standard dimensions and uneven applications of knocked-down boxes used in framing and roofing applications.

Surely there are eager buyers on eBay?

Nope. Missed this the first time around. I think fast. Hit's the writin that I do slow......

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I think I saw some of them there ids in the movie Deliverance
Where I'm from the Hatfields had all the good creates.

I missed it too.
It's unlike you to miss a post, let alone a thread!